Used as: main desktop
Got it in 1994 from some family friends.
Commodore PC AT-30.
- 80286 PC with 1Mb RAM, I think it was an AMD cpu, but I’m not sure
- 12 Mhz
- ATI EGA Wonder card with a yellow-black monochrome Commodore EGA monitor.
- 1.44Mb FDD
(it’s not the one in the picture, I don’t think I have any pictures of it)
The good part was that it had the 80287. The bad was that it only had one 1.44 3.5 floppy… that scratched the disks (so they were usable only for a limited time)…
The HDD appeared to be broken. We didn’t knew enough about PC’s at that time and had no way to determine that it was actualy the IDE port that was fried. So we broke the HDD trying to make it work. It was actually strange to see a 286 with an onboard IDE port. Only later models of 486 motherboard began to have IDE ports standard.
In 1995 I received from my school a 20Mb drive that attached to an 8 bit ISA card, bypassing the broken IDE. It was I think the biggest perceived leap in speed I ever witnessed. I wonder if upgrading to an SSD will feel the same.
At some point we donated it I think.
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